VIASPACE Press Release

11/19/2007

PASADENA, Calif., November 19, 2007 - VIASPACE Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: VSPC - News) Director of Engineering and Operations for VIASPACE Energy, Mr. Nathan Hurvitz, gave an invited presentation at the 3rd Annual Fuel Cells Durability and Performance Conference in Miami, FL on November 16, 2007. The conference focused on new developments in materials, methods and testing equipment for fuel cells and new energy sources. Mr. Hurvitz's presentation was entitled "An In-Situ, Real Time, Gas Humidity Sensor for Fuel Cells." It featured an in-depth look at the new HS-1000 VIASENSOR humidity sensor recently released for sale by VIASPACE Energy.

The conference featured presentations on a variety of fuel cell applications, including automotive applications as presented by Daimler Corporation, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd and Ford Motor Company, as well as advances in durability and testing by Ballard Power Systems and Los Alamos National Lab.

VIASPACE Energy has recently filed new patent claims covering use of its tunable laser-based VIASENSOR in the exhaust of internal combustion engines and as an embedded unit for control of future hybrid powered automobiles. The company has received very positive feedback from the early adopters of the VIASENSOR, as well as strong interest in these new applications from several automobile manufacturers and instrumentation companies.

About VIASPACE: Founded in 1998 to transform proven space and defense technologies from NASA and the Department of Defense into commercial hardware and software solutions that solve today's complex problems, VIASPACE benefits from important patent and software licenses from Caltech, which manages NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. VIASPACE focuses on alternative energy and fuel cell infrastructure, and on hardware and software for security and defense.

Press contact: Dr. Carl Kukkonen, CEO626-768-3360 -----------------------------This news release includes forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements relate to future events or our future performance and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Such factors include the risks outlined in our periodic filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including our Annual Report on Form 10-KSB, as amended, for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006, and our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended September 30, 2007, as well as general economic and business conditions, the ability to acquire and develop specific projects and technologies, the ability to fund operations, changes in consumer and business consumption habits, and other factors over which VIASPACE has little or no control.